On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 10:51:43PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Ben Caradoc-Davies (2018-04-04): > > What is the length of a > > string? > > When is that relevant?
When you're trying to display one on a screen, or print one on paper. When you've been asked to find the longest/shortest string from a list. When you've been asked to sort a list of strings by length. Or in other words, basically every time you do anything with the string at all other than blindly byte-copying it to a different place in memory.
